Matt Beaumont e: A Novel. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Matt Beaumont e: A Novel

An unforgettable first novel, an author to shout about, a campaign to ensure that everyone knows this is the funniest, sharpest read of the year.

Consisting entirely of staff emails, e spends a fortnight in the company of Miller Shanks, an advertising agency that scales dizzying peaks of incompetence. Among the cast are a CEO with an MBA from the Joseph Stalin School of Management, a Creative Director who is a genius, if only in his own head, designers and copywriters driven by breasts, beer or Bach Flower Remedies, and secretaries who drip honey and spit blood.

The novel is a tapestry of insincerity, backstabbing and bare-arsed bitchiness: that is to say, everyday office politics. Oh yes, and there is some work to be done too – the quest for advertising’s Eldorado, the Coca-Cola account.

e is sleazy, scurrilous and scabrously funny. It also contains a first-class joke about the Pope and sound advice on the maintenance of industrial carpet tiles.

Matt Beaumont is a lover, not a fighter. He is a six-foot, high-tensile writing machine. His favourite colour is blue and his favourite Sugababe is Mutya.

For many, many years he has wanted to write the definitive account of the Bee Gees’ disco period.
STAYING ALIVE is not that book.